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When the 8,500-ton German freighter Hermod docked at Baltimore last week, a mustached newsman who looks more like a diplomat than a reporter was on hand to greet captain & crew in impeccable German. The one-man reception committee for the first German ship to visit the U.S^ since 1941 was Detlev Friedrich Achaz, Reichsgraf und Graf von der Schulenburg, 40, a newcomer to the U.S. himself. He is the first fully accredited German correspondent in the U.S. since Pearl Harbor. Reporter Schulenburg, already "Schuley" to fellow correspondents, is stationed in Washington and represents Deutsche Press Agentur, biggest news...
...even he did not realize that he had assembled "the most significant group of continental explorers ever brought together." The man who became the group's most outstanding graduate was a 24-year-old New Yorker named Jedediah Strong Smith, an ex-clerk on a Great Lakes freighter who had come to town in time to spot Ashley's ad. Three years later, when beaver-rich General Ashley retired from the field and sold his interests to Trapper Smith and two other lieutenants, they lost no time in organizing an 18-man party and plunging into the unexplored...
...elephants were at sea aboard the Isthmian Steamship Co.'s freighter Steel Fabricator, gifts of India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to the Washington, D. C. zoo. Originally the gifts were scheduled to be flown to the U.S., but the airlines backed down when it turned out that one of the beasts weighed 1,030 Ibs., the other...
...Wayne Richardson, 51, veteran Associated Press correspondent in China, the Overseas Press Club's George Polk memorial award, for "courage, integrity and enterprise." Bound home from Hong Kong, balding, bespectacled "Pop" Richardson cancelled his plane reservation, signed up as radio operator on the U.S. freighter Flying Arrow. When Chinese Nationalists shelled the blockade runner off Shanghai (TIME, Jan. 16), Richardson got an exclusive story...
Proceeding by freighter from Biarritz to South America, the play chiefly chronicles the long-established relationship (or lack of one) between a rich, rampageous, epileptic Ecuadorian general and a prim, suicide-seeking, coffin-toting English governess. A kind of double target, Now I Lay Me contrasts farcically-as E. M. Forster and others have done more seriously-the torrid zone of the emotions with the frigid; i.e., Latin excesses and flamboyance with British repressions and good form...